Radio Shack 16B, System Manual

Page 1: ...TRS 80 Model 16B Built in Hard Disk SYSTEM MANUAL CUSTOM MANUFACTURED IN U S A BY RADIO SHACK A DIVISION OF TANDY CORPORATION...

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Page 3: ...E CAUSED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY 3Y EOUIPMENT DH SOFTWARE SOLD LEASED LICENSED OR FUHN SHED BY RAOiO SHACK INC JOINS BUT NOT LIUll D 10 AN7 INTFRRUPTION OF SERVICE LOSS OF SL5INFSS OR ANTdPATORY PHOFTS...

Page 4: ...required to cryreol the interference TRS XENIX Operating System Copyright 19B2 Microsoft All flights Heservftd Licensed to Tandy Corporation THSDOS 2 0b Operating System Copyright 19B0 Tandy Corporati...

Page 5: ...ous oarts of your system h ne different ypes of disks and how to insta I your system It also shows how to operate the System load a program and use some of the more helpful commands in addition it als...

Page 6: ...from their operands by one or more b ank spaces Multip e operands where allowed may oe separated from each a her by a comma a comma followed by one or more blanks or by one or more blanks Blanks and c...

Page 7: ...6 Copying TRSDOS II Programs onto a Hard Disk 26 Creating a Backup Liorary 25 Running TRSDOS II Programs Under Hard Disk Control 26 Section IN Floppy Diskette Preparation 6 Backing Uo TRSDOS II and TR...

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Page 9: ...SECTION 1 INSTALLATION AND POWER UP...

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Page 11: ...CHAPTER 1 INSTALLING YOUR BUILT IN HARD DISK SYSTEM This chapter shows you how to install your Built in Hard Disk System Built in Hard Disk System Console and Keyboard...

Page 12: ...o not throw this map away You may need to refer to it when formatting the disk and Radio Shack service technicians may need to refer to it if your drive ever needs servicing find these floppy diskette...

Page 13: ...le Drive Light Drive Latch Reset Button Keyboard Reset Button Repeats the power up sequence Power Light Lighted when the system s power is on Never move the unit while lit Drive Light Never remove a d...

Page 14: ...light comes on When the CLOCK light is on on ly shifted characters are output To release CLOCK press SHIFT Numeric Keypad or CAPS RPD Repeats a character continuously when held down at the same time a...

Page 15: ...a grounded 120 VAC 3 prong outlet that does not power heavy machinery copiers or office machines with defective switches or use a grounded power strip such as Radio Shack s Plug In Power Strip 2 Make...

Page 16: ...ters modems and data terminals When connecting a DB 25 type cable fit the cable connector to your Built in Hard Disk System s connector Internally Connected Peripheral Equipment The floppy diskette an...

Page 17: ...Disk Expansion Unit attach he connector on one end of The cable to the 50 pin connector on the chassis Connect the other end ot the cable to the Expansion Unit Position all the Built in Hard Disk inte...

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Page 19: ...ive 0 and other peripheral floppy diskette d ves can be added Hard disks vour Built in Har d Disk System has one bui t in hard disk dnve Drive and anc her oeripherai secondary hard disk drive can oe a...

Page 20: ...diskette Do this by covering the write protect notch with one of the gummed foil tabs provided You cannot change a diskette s information if the write protect notch is uncovered Sector Hole It is off...

Page 21: ...you put in them programs cata information and each fie has a different name Disk files usuaily are created through an application program Operating Systems and Application Programs Operating systems a...

Page 22: ...C is a TRSDOS II TRSDOS program it runs under TRSDOS and TRSDOS II This application program lets you write programs in BASIC Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code To learn more about your ap...

Page 23: ...f present will be turned on automatically Allow 1 minute warm up for the hard disk drives 3 Turn on any other peripheral equipment Hard Disk Control After you have initialized your hard disk by storin...

Page 24: ...skette into Drive 0 with the label facing the display Push the diskette into the slot until it locks into place NOTE To make a Backup of the supplied TRSDOS 2 0b and TRSDOS II Diskettes see Chapter 6...

Page 25: ...fi Your screen shows TRSDOS II Ready This message indicates that TRSDOS II is ready to accept a command or load an application program If instead of the above start up message An error message is disp...

Page 26: ...all the floppy drives are empty 2 Turn off all peripheral equipment Secondary Hard Disk Drive will be turned off with the System 3 Turn off the system by pushing the power switch back Error Messages...

Page 27: ...select one operating system or the other Customers with TRS XENIX programs Prepare your primary hard disk for TRS XENIX programs Chapter 4 Customers with TRSDOS II TRSDOS programs Prepare your primary...

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Page 29: ...o the hard disk Directions for formatting the hard disk and installing TRS XENIX are given in Chapter 3 of the TRS XENIX Operations Guide Note The diskutil program will prompt you for this information...

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Page 31: ...move TRSDOS II to Drive 4 1 Power up your System as described earlier 2 The error message BOOT ERROR HN will be displayed Press RESET then REPEAT BREAK or REPEAT fESE If Drive 4 has previously been fo...

Page 32: ...S II the name to assign to the disk If omitted TRSDOS will be used PW password tells TRSDOS II the master password to assign to the disk If omitted PASSWORD is used The master password allows access t...

Page 33: ...reater than the precompensation to ensure the most reliable directory access verification level is one of the following FULL reads the value of each sector and compares that value with what was writte...

Page 34: ...ommand to copy the program from floppy diskette to hard disk See the TRSDOS li Reference Manual Creating a Backup Library Through operator error power failure or other accidents you can lose informati...

Page 35: ...SKETTE PREPARATION This section shows how to prepare your TRSDOS II TRSDOS diskettes to run under floppy diskette control You can use your TRS XENIX diskettes only under hard disk control not under fl...

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Page 37: ...rs with only one floppy drive You cannot backup the TRSDOS II diskette Use the TRSDOS 2 0b diskette instead Customers with two or more floppy drives Follow these steps 1 Prepare a destination diskette...

Page 38: ...overing the write protect notch of a blank diskette with a write enable tab 2 Power up or reset the computer Press RPTl BREAK to operate under floppy diskette control 3 Insert the TRSDOS 2 0b Diskette...

Page 39: ...is displayed insert the destination diskette into Drive Type Y ENTER to continue 6 When the formatting is complete the following message is displayed Insert SYSTEM diskette Press ANY key to continue R...

Page 40: ...stem and application program diskettes in a safe place Run the system with copies of your original TRSDOS II Systems Diskette TRSDOS 2 0b Diskette Hard Disk Operating System Initialization Diskette an...

Page 41: ...r TRSDOS diskettes to TRSDOS 2 0b to run on Thinline drives Converting TRSDOS to TRSDOS II TRSDOS II is a greatly enhanced version of TRSDOS It can be used with either floppy or hard disk drives It st...

Page 42: ...skette in Drive 0 Press RFD CBREAK to operate under floppy diskette control Type CGPYTHINLINE 0 0 ENTEffi You are prompted when to mount the source diskette TRSDOS 2 0b and the destination diskette TR...

Page 43: ...turning to the Ready prompt Make sure the drive light is off Then remove the diskette When swapping diskettes in a drive type 1 CENTER after inserting the new diskette If you swap the diskettes in Dri...

Page 44: ...r floppy drive s Then use the application program as instructed in the application program manual Formatting TRSDOS II Data Diskettes To make a data diskette to use with a TRSDOS I application program...

Page 45: ...owers up with key click turned on Each time you press a key the system generates a click To turn the key click off type CLICK OFF and press ENTERI All commands must be entered in capital letters To lo...

Page 46: ...you wish until you exit the BASIC program TRSDOS lf resumes control If you want to keep the program to run later you must store it permanently before exiting BASIC 9 To save the Hello program for fut...

Page 47: ...SECTION IV MAINTENANCE AND APPENDICES...

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Page 49: ...iskettes away from magnetic fields such as transformers AC motors magnets TVs radios and a system s display console Don t bend diskettes Never touch a diskette s exposed shiny surfaces Do not try to w...

Page 50: ...py disk drives every six months or less Ask the sales representative at a Radio Shack Computer Center about disk drive head cleaning kits Secondary Hard Disk Drive Maintenance Hard disk drives don t r...

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Page 53: ...eckout program reduces the chance that you will lose time or data without knowing it because of a defective system This program does not check for multiple faults as soon as the first fault is found t...

Page 54: ...laying the second error message Operating System Errors Message Explanation Action Address Out Of Range SVC Block or the SVC argument is not within the memory range Attempt To Open A File Which Has No...

Page 55: ...ned For multi user only 137 Device Not Available For multi user only 136 Directory Read Error Error occurred during an attempt to read the directory Try a different diskette 17 Directory Space Full Nu...

Page 56: ...or use FCOPY When initializing a hard disk you must also format the secondary drives Illegal Disk Change The operating system detected an illegal disk swap illegal File Type File type you used FLR or...

Page 57: ...or open is already open 37 Out Of Range Address Error Overflow occurred in the user stack during the SETBRK SVC orSETTRP SVC operation 139 Parameter Error On Call Parameter is incorrect or a re quired...

Page 58: ...tive CTC chip Contact RSSC CT BOOT ERROR Floppy disk controller DC error a Defective diskette a Try a different dis b Floppy disk expan kette sion unit not on b Turn on the floppy a Defective FDC disk...

Page 59: ...a Didn t find Track a Press ftESIf before time out b Contact RSSC b Secondary hard disk drive is not on BOOT ERROR Time out while waiting HT for Ready a Hard disk drives a Contact RSSC not powered up...

Page 60: ...atted diskette into Drive and Press RESET BOOT ERROR SC ORG Error Invalid data on diskette or defective diskette Try a different diskette BOOT ERROR TK Record not found bootstrap track Im properly for...

Page 61: ...iskette If you have enough floppy diskette drives you can use this utility to copy and TRSDOS II system or data diskette Note You cannot back up a double sided to a single sided diskette Backing Up TR...

Page 62: ...e space 3 Enter the date and time 4 When TRSDOS II Ready is displayed type BACKUP TO 2 CENTER Backup Successfully Completed is displayed when the backup is finished TRSDOS Backup The TRSDOS BACKUP uti...

Page 63: ...ype BACKUP 2 TO 3 INTER TRSDOS READY is displayed when the backup is finished With TRSDOS 2 0b in Drive 0 you can now use your backup data diskette in another drive BACKUP Duplicate a Diskette BACKUP...

Page 64: ...file NOAUTO SYS Examples BACKUP 3 TO 2 PW ASHER ENTER makes a mirror image copy of the diskette in Drive 3 to the diskette in Drive 2 using the password ASHER BACKUP 2 TO 0 NEW TEST CENTER copies the...

Page 65: ...te Note Neither SAVE nor RESTORE is possible under floppy control with a single floppy drive configuration References to floppy drives other than are for users with floppy expansion drives Creating a...

Page 66: ...of the following d which is a drive specification and is a number between 0 7 filespecd specifies a TRSDOS II file or INDirect file to be saved wildoardd is a TRSDOS ll wildcard and includes a disk dr...

Page 67: ...this list of filespecs When TRSDOS II Ready type BUILD PROGRAMS ENTER This creates an indirect file called PROGRAMS After TRSDOS II prompts you with Enter command line 1 80 enter your list of file sp...

Page 68: ...15 81 10 15 81 TEST PRG 10 29 81 10 29 81 If you want to save only those files created on June 1 1 982 use the following command SAVE 5 TO DC 060182 ENTER The first four files are saved to the floppy...

Page 69: ...s fENTERI again and the Fixed line will be saved You can now edit the next command line Restoring your Files To restore information to a hard disk other than Drive 4 replace 4 f with the desired drive...

Page 70: ...rd disk try to get a directory of your primary hard disk drive Type DIR 4 ENTER If you can get a directory then you probably can save the contents of your hard disk 4 Save the contents of your primary...

Page 71: ...nly the DATASET identifier IND indirect tells TRSDOS II to use the contents of the destination file as a list of destination filespecs that meet the requirements stated above KILL tells TRSDOS II to k...

Page 72: ...oppy diskette in Drive 2 and puts them on the hard disk in Drive 4 RESTORE 2 PROGRAMS IND CENTlRl where PROGRAMS is an indirect file containing the files MAILiST PRG 4 MAILDAT TXT 4 CHANGES TXT 4 retr...

Page 73: ...APPENDIX C Graphics Codes II HI mm 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 III 18 19 1A 1B 1C ID 1E IF 59...

Page 74: ...em boards Emulation mode lets you execute programs previously developed for the TRS 80 Model II without changing them first Computational Processor System 68000 based with either 128K or 256K 384K or...

Page 75: ...h double sided floppy diskette drive Maximum One built in and up to two external 8 inch double sided floppy diskette drives floppy diskette expansion unit needed for two external drives Preventive Mai...

Page 76: ...ees Centigrade Peripheral Interfaces Standard Serial port A RS 232C Serial port B RS 232C Parallel input output channel for connection to TRS 80 standard parallel interface line printers Floppy disket...

Page 77: ...end 4 Data Terminal Ready 20 Ground 1J Receive Data 3 Receiver Xmitter Clock 17 Data Set Ready 6 Clear to Send 5 Carrier Detect 8 Transmit Data 2 Request to Send 4 Data Terminal Ready 20 Parallel Inte...

Page 78: ...logic FAULT Input to the computer from the printer 28 low indicates fault paper empty light detect deselect and so on GROUND Common signal ground 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 27 31 33 NC Not conne...

Page 79: ...to 9750 ft 457 to 2972 m Storage to 12000 ft 0 to 3650 m Disk Organization Initialized To TRSDOS II Cylinders per Disk 306 Tracks per Unit 1836 Tracks per Platter 612 Sectors per Track 34 Bytes per Se...

Page 80: ...Model 16B to Model 16B only DB 25 MALE CONNECTOR CONNECT TO RS 232 MODEL 16B 13 25 4 OB 25 CONNECTOR 14 ffl J goo uii u i 1 1 a kjOO JSjJ Jl CJ M DB 25 MALE CONNECTOR CONNECT TO CHANNEL A MODEL 168 C...

Page 81: ...foot applicable At Ready with TRSDOS tr Drive 0 press RESET f hard disk press REPEAT BREAKS At READY with TRSDOS II m primary drive press RESET and HOLD entering the dale Not applicable Type of Disks...

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Page 83: ...S II It is never returned as a character ESC IB 21 1 21 I 31 31 40 40 2 32 32 23 23 J 33 24 4 34 34 25 25 c 35 5 35 7E A5E fi 36 6 36 26 26 37 37 2A 2A fl 38 8 38 5C 28 9 39 3 39 TAB 09 11 Q 51 51 71...

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Page 87: ...Maintenance 38 Keyboard 8 Keyboard Code Map 68 Maintenance 37 Subject Page Model 16B Communication with another Model 1 6B 66 Equipment 6 Installation 9 Peripheral Equipment 10 Power up 17 Power down...

Page 88: ...Subject Page TRS XENIX Operating System Backing Up 21 Formatting 21 Write Protect Notch 14 Write Protect Tab 14 72...

Page 89: ...rves the right to refuse to service the equipment or to void any remaining warranty on the equipment 2 If any Radio Shack computer equipment has been modified so that it is not within manufacturer s s...

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